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* [[Alien Sky]]: Some of the most breathtaking skies ever seen in a videogame, especially for the time.

* [[All Up to You]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]; your only goal is to survive.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Many of the translator messages are these, especially the ones you find aboard the Vortex Rikers and the ISV Kran.

* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: The Skaarj will change their tactics depending on how much health they have left, how many allies they have backing them up, and what weapons are being used against them. For example, if you are using projectiles they will dodge the shots flying at them, whereas if you use a hitscan weapon they will jump out of the firing line before you can pull the trigger.

* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: Brute Behemoths, Skaarj Berserkers, and Skaarj Lords.

** [[Degraded Boss]]: After your first encounters, you'll start to see these more often.

* [[Breather Level]]: Serpent Canyon, which comes right after the enemy-infested labyrinth that is Cellars at Dasa.

* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: Nali names for many things - for example starships are "thunderbirds" or "metal chariots", Skaarj are "the demons from the stars" (or just "sky demons"), while [[Humans by Any Other Name|humans]] are "two-armed soft skins". [[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit|Inverted]] with the Nali Cow and, appropriately enough, the Nali Rabbit (which looks more like a kiwi). In the level "Temple of Chizra", they put an eightball gun on an altar and call it the [[Cargo Cult|"stick of six fires"]].

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]

* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: Foundry Tarydium Plant, in ''Return To Na Pali''.

* [[Cool Starship]]: The Vortex Rikers prison vessel, the ISV-Kran, and, of course, the Skaarj Mothership. From ''RTNP'' there's also the UMS Bodega Bay and the UMS Prometheus.

* [[Deadly Rotary Fan]]: Found in the Deathmatch level DmDeathFan.

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: One of the Skaarj melee moves is a [[Spin Attack]]. The Krall will sometimes twirl their staffs before firing, or when idle.

* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Some of the wildlife wandering around Na Pali is harmless, but if you look at their scripting in the [[Level Editor]], even they are set to "Attitude to Player: Hate." This is lampshaded by the [[Anti-Hero|Prisoner 849]] in the intermission at the end of "Velora Pass" in ''RTNP'':

* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|The UMS crew trying to kill the player}} in ''Return To Na Pali''.

* [[Faceless Goons]]: The Mercenaries, and the UMS space marines in ''RTNP''.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

** In "Bluff Eversmoking", there's a log with one:

** Later, by the same author:

*** And then subverted: later on a Nali diary describing the same incident reveals that "hrangos" are teeth, not testicles.<ref> Which kind of makes more sense, as this means that the jailer's name translates as "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Fang]]" and not "[[Fail O'Suckyname|Balls]]"</ref>

** Another log, in "Dasa Mountain Pass", shows that even Kralls [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork|don't want to work together]]:

* [[Grimy Water]]: The Terraniux levels had several areas full of greeny water.

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: The Krall can occasionally be seen sleeping, talking or playing dice while on duty.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: To this day, the reasons of his/her imprisonment are still unknown.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]:

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Possibly, {{spoiler|the Warlord}}, assuming the one in RTNP is the same one you "killed" aboard the Skaarj Mothership.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Some of the enemy spawners indeed only spawn enemies when you're not looking into the particular spawner. Bodies of slain enemies only disappear when your back is turned.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Your first encounter with a Skaarj. {{spoiler|You're happily walking along to get back to your objective, in a passage you've already crossed with no enemy activity whatsoever, and suddenly the lights start going out, one by one. You can't run, because the corridor is now blocked. You start to hear grunting noises. This is where you say the trope, right before a whirring mass of blades and hurt dives straight for your face.}}

* [[One Bullet Clips]]: Notably averted by the Automag (oddly, the only gun in the game that needs to periodically stop firing to reload). You don't have a reload key, so the Automag simply gets reloaded when it's out of bullets. If you hear the telltale "click" that signals the clip is down to five rounds, and you know there's a big fight coming, this forces you to change weapons to force a reload.

* [[Painfully-Slow Projectile]]: Gasbag fireballs and Titan rocks (just as well, because the latter is a [[One-Hit Kill]]). Other weapons vary, but most can be dodged if your reflexes are fast enough. Averted by Mercenaries (with their machine gun alt fire) and by certain Skaarj troopers, who use the same hitscan weapons the player can use. Too bad for you...

** The Skaarj are also aware of this trope and will ''dodge'' your projectile weapons!

* [[Powered Armour]]: The Mercenaries and Skaarj Troopers in ''Unreal'', and the UMS space marines in RTNP.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Arguably, the Skaarj:

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The game that started it all. The first level fools you into thinking it's just another shooter in enclosed spaces with prettier graphics (for the time). The second level... doesn't. If you played the game without first reading reviews of it, the surprise was mindblowing. Lush vegetation, colorful moving skies, animals hopping and flying about, and the sheer ''size'' of all the scenery was something completely unseen for the day, along with some perfectly fitting music to set the mood. It remained exclusive to ''Unreal'' for a while, too.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Despite the Prisoner 849 [[One-Man Army|rampaging across the planet]] {{spoiler|twice}}, and {{spoiler|killing a Skaarj Queen and [[Not Quite Dead|two]] Warlord leaders}}, along with various references to being [[The Chosen One|the Nali's Savior]], the ''Tournament'' games, which, according to [[Word of God]], are set several years after, still reference the Skaarj hunting Nali. Not to mention that {{spoiler|the resultant declaration of war against humanity devastated their colonies, and Earth itself}}.

* [[Tech Fu]]: The Mercenaries, who wear [[Powered Armour]], wield a rocket-launcher/minigun combo on [[Arm Cannon|one arm]] and sport personal [[Deflector Shields]].

** Arguably, the player, who's helpless without the guns and pickups found within the game. Poor [[Puny Earthlings|Prisoner 849]] isn't really going to get very far in a fist fight against [[Mighty Glacier|Brutes]], [[Lightning Bruiser|Skaarj]], [[Hollywood Cyborg|Mercenaries]] or a [[The Juggernaut|Titan]]. Next to a sketch of a Brute in the ''Unreal'' manual:

* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: The Kralls aren't happy of working alongside of the Skaarj, as a log shows up in the Bluff Eversmoking level:

* [[Tele Frag]]: The expansion features a level with no exit - until an enemy is teleported into a wall.

* [[There Was a Door]]: The [[Mighty Glacier|Brutes]] are fond of this. {{spoiler|In their first appearance in Nyleve's Falls, a Brute smashes its way through a door behind you (which is sneaky as you'll more likely be focused on the Brute ''in front'' of you that has just thrown a human survivor against the wall and [[Ludicrous Gibs|annihilated him with a volley of rockets]]). In Foundry Tarydium Plant, a Brute bursts through a ROCK WALL to get at you.}}

== Character tropes ==

* [[AFGNCAAP]]: In ''Return To Na Pali'', the intermission voice changes depending on the character you choose. You can choose to be:

[[Tattooed Crook]] (Carter)<br />

[[Smoking Is Cool|Smoker]] with [[Nice Hat]] (Ash)<br />